Deltek

Last week in Dallas Deltek’s customers and partners gathered for its annual user conference. As usual it was well attended and the audience was very enthusiastic. Deltek’s customers are some of the most loyal and vocal I’ve seen in the enterprise software business. While there were many product announcements with lot’s of new features and […]

Earlier this summer one of my clients, Deltek, sponsored IDC in a survey and white paper on current challenges and opportunities for professional services firms world wide. The phone survey of 280 consulting firms in the US, UK, Belgium, Scandinavia…

The Spring 2011 user conference season is finally winding down and for me basically ended last week as I attended my fourth Deltek Insight user conference. Deltek, a company on a multi-year journey of transformation from a sleepy family run…

Deltek Expands Core Vertical While Diversifying Profit Streams Project Based Solutions (PBS) vendor Deltek plans to close its $60 million acquisition of INPUT, a government contracting market research and business development firm, on October 1st, 2010. The transaction will add $26.2M in annual revenue, 160 employees, and a rich government contracting ecosystem. Analysis of the […]

Today Deltek announced its intent to acquire market research firm INPUT. INPUT, originally founded in 1974 as an IT market research firm has, since 2000, focused on delivering market and opportunity intelligence to IT public sector contractors and agencies. The deal is expected to close Oct 1, 2010. INPUT offers government contractors (GovCon) sales and […]

It’s All About The Cloud At WPC10 Attendees at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C. already expect Windows Azure development to be a key theme throughout this annual pilgrimage. Microsoft has made significant investments into the cloud. Many executives from the Redmond, WA, software giant have publicly stated that 90% […]

Acquisition Consolidates Two Market Leaders In The Project Based Solutions Market

Deltek announced on June 3rd that they would acquire Maconomy for $72.7M ($3.39/share (DKK 20.50)). Maconomy is a leading project based solutions (PBS) software company (~35.6M 2009 revenues) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Deltek is a 265.8M (2009 revenues) PBS software vendor based in Herndon, VA. […]